Two years ago, startup Canoo lent a handful of its egg-shaped electric delivery vans to Walmart for their first tests. There was a lot riding on the outcome. Walmart had signed a non-binding ...

The delivery center has more than 100 electric delivery vans and 164 charging ports. Amazon currently uses 20,000 electric vans across the United States and is aiming to have 100,000 of them by 2030.

The service area includes addresses east of Interstate 64. It takes an hour to sort 5,000 packages, and 25 minutes to load a van. “It’s pretty systematic on the minute,” said Clark.

But hey, heat is heat. And you’re not going to be freezing your butt off in the world’s tiniest delivery van this winter. The vehicle also might just be roomier than it looks.

Charging time and range The vans have a 100 kWh battery. The 500 can go 161 miles on a charge, the 700, 153. The 500 is 248.5 inches long and has a 157.5-inch wheelbase. The 700 is 278 inches long ...

It also looks pretty good, which is a tad surprising for a commercial vehicle. The vans will be built at Renault’s Sandouville plant and the first deliveries are slated for 2026.

Flexis has already invested €350 million in the development of these all-electric delivery vans. Twenty prototypes have been built and tested, with more than 9,000 hours of driving since March 2024.

This was supposed to be the year that air conditioning came to UPS delivery vans. It hasn’t worked out that way. Despite a promise in the contract reached with the Teamsters union last year, UPS ...

Some businesses are swapping big trucks for vans and other small commercial vehicles to make deliveries within the congestion pricing zone, according to new traffic data. The shift allows delivery ...

GM sold 1,529 BrightDrop commercial electric vans in the U.S. last year, compared with Ford's 12,610 E-Transit vehicles and Rivian's 13,243 EDV. Even without tariff impacts, BrightDrop sales in ...

But they make up only a small fraction of the 94,000 UPS package vans on American roads. The number of vans with AC was bound to grow slowly. Some vans can last for more than 15 years.